Synopsis
Bruce Parry meets the Sakha horse people and Eveny reindeer herders in Siberia's Verkhoyansk Mountains to see how they are embracing the challenges of a post-Soviet Arctic.
- Programme: Arctic with Bruce Parry
- Episode: 01: Siberia
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Geography | Human and physical geography | Climate zones
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